Acres Magazine presents an extensive interview with John Jeavons in the December 2011 issue. For more information or to request a free sample issue, go to www.acresusa.com.

Video: Women Farmers Using Biointensive in Africa

Watch a presentation about how G-BIACK teaches women farmers in Kenya to use Biointensive farming to build food sovereignty in their communities. By Samuel Nderitu, Director of the Grow Biointensive Agriculture Center of Kenya (G-BIACK -- an Ecology Action partner organization) at the California Food and Justice Coalition's Food Sovereignty Awards Ceremony.

Our Biointensive
Learning Tools Online

We have created a Self-Teaching Classroom here on our website, where everyone can download a free copy our newest self -teaching guide: A Farmer's Mini -Handbook, and see useful images of Biointensive gardening methods. You can also find links to watch the new series of how-to GROW BIOINTENSIVE videos from John Jeavons and Cynthia Raiser Jeavons!

GROW BIOINTENSIVE learning centers are sowing the seeds of
food security in Kenya

In Kenya, hunger and poverty are endemic: a majority of Kenyans experience chronic hunger, and farmers are often unable to afford inputs for their farms. Ecology Action and our African partner organizations (Manor House Agricultural Centre, Kilili Self-Help Project and GROW BIOINTENSIVE Agricultural Center of Kenya(G-BIACK)) are working to provide solutions.

Ecology Action teaches people worldwide to better feed themselves
while building and preserving the soil and conserving resources.

Aware of intensifying world challenges and the basic need of people to feed themselves, we have been working for 40 years to develop an elegant, small-scale agricultural system — GROW BIOINTENSIVE® Sustainable Mini-Farming — that when practiced correctly, nurtures healthy soil fertility, produces high yields, conserves resources and can be used successfully by almost everyone. Our goal is to help this system be known and used locally...on a worldwide basis.

To learn more about the GROW BIOINTENSIVE method, and how it works, click here.

Announcing the Release of Our New Online Learning Series!

In January 2014, Ecology Action held a special 2-week Farmers Course in Willits, CA. During this amazing event, twelve different sustainability experts with over 250 years of combined experience lectured on a variety of topics essential for sustainable farming. Dozens of these presentations were captured on film so we could share this unique educational experience in farming and sustainability. These films are now online, and are offered as part of Ecology Action's educational mission.

Now, more people than ever before will be able to learn directly from our master farmers from the US, Latin America and Africa, and will come away from the experience equipped to begin growing sustainable and organic food and soil to build a better future for the whole world.

To browse free episodes, click the link below and then scroll down to the "Extra Features" section of the Vimeo page. You can watch other episodes for only $1.99, or purchase the whole series for $11.99 - all proceeds help fund Ecology Action's educational programs!

Ecology Action (G-BIACK's fiscal sponsor) is initiating a $100,000 crowd-funding campaign to help G-BIACK to build its organizational capacity and extend its proven training program to cover the next 6 months of operation, teaching and outreach.

Samuel, Peris and their staff have already helped over 8,000 people learn to use Biointensive agriculture to grow sustainable food, soil, and income. With this funding, G-BIACK will have the capacity to directly train 4,000 more people by the end of the year. Each of the 4,000 people trained through G-BIACK's efforts pledges to teach three of their neighbors the skills that they learn, and in this way, it is projected that an estimated 16,000 people will have been directly and indirectly trained as a result of G-BIACK's project activities this year alone.

Each tax-deductible dollar donated is a vital step into a better, healthier, happier and more sustainable world. Each donor can make the difference between a life of sorrow and a life of joy and good health for a family in Kenya.

Compost is Carbon Sequestration! GROW BIOINTENSIVE compost increases the amount of carbon stored in the soil, reduces the amount of water needed to grow crops, and increases the yields for both food and compost crops.
Every garden planted makes a positive difference.

Employment Opportunities
with Ecology Action

Since 2002, 1% for the Planet
has inspired members of the business community to contribute 1% of sales to environmental groups around the world.

Through its trainings and publications, Ecology
Action has catalyzed projects worldwide.
The projects above had
their beginnings through connections with Ecology Action or through
people who had connections with us.